Alphonse charles mckercher



(No Model.) A. C. MEEIIERCEEE.

OANDELABBIIM.

Nur-518,650. Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AIiIPHONSE CEIARLES MCIKEROEIER, OF MONTREAL, tIANADA, ASSIGrNOR TO ALBERT GAIITIIIEB, OF SAME PLACE.

CANDELABRUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,650, dated April 24, 1894.

Application iiled August 3, 1893. Serial No. 482,324. (NO model.)

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-Be t known that I, ALFIzIONSE CEIARLES MOKERCEIEZEC, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Montreal, in the county of I-Iochelaga, Province of Quebec, and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Candelabrum, of which the following is a specification.

My invention includes a series of parallolograms, jointed together and connected to a main stand disposed as hereinafter described,

- and. the object being to give to the branches of the candelabrurn any required inclination and to the candelabrum itself any required elevation.

Referring to the drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a general elevation of a candelabrum embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of part of the stand. Fig. 8 shows an arm of one of the parallelograms, forming the branches of my candelabrum. Figs. .L and 5 are illustrations of the means of connection oftwo ad- .ioining parallelograms.

In my candelabrum, the stand consists of two parts, the outer stand A and the inner stand B; the outer stand A is hollow in the center in which fits the inner stand B, which may be elevated or lowered to any required position and olamped by means of the clamp screw 0. The top of the inner stand B carries 'a shield D to which are attached the series of parallel arms, 1, 2, which go to make up the parallelogram system. At the junotion of each p`arallelogram, the arms are bolted and. jointed together and to the shields P, S, M, N, on each of which is solidlylizced a rack B Fig. 5 furnished with teeth 71, h, and a clamp screw 0. One arm of each parallelogram is attached at one eirtremity to a somi-circular face wheel E, which in turn is furnished with a groove, li', concentric with the semi-circumference of the wheel E; on the under surface of the wheel E is a series of tooth, g, g, whose mthe rack Pt. The parallelograms 1nay be increased to any number consistent with the strength of the stand.

When any required position is desired to be given to the branches of my cadelabrum, the shields P, S, lil, N are elevated or lowered carrying with the1n the ends Of the arms of the adjoining parallelograms, the clamp serew O, having been loosened Will move in the groove F of the semi-circular wheel E and when the required position is attained, the wheeiE is clamped to the rack B by the screw 0 and perfect rigidity is obtained by the grooving of the tooth g g and 71, 77,. The inner stand, B and the shields P, S, M, N, bear the candle sticks, carrying the tapers which may be made to describe any required Shape or figure. The holders for the candles are shown at T.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination the standards, the series of shields each having rack tooth B, the series of parallel arms or rods 1, 2, the said rods 2 being pivoted to the shields, each of the said rods l having at one end a slotted face plate E pivoted to one shield and having its opposite end pivoted to the next shield and axially of the face plate of the next arm 1 and the clamp screws for holding the slotted face plates, the pairs of arms l, 2, with their respective face plates and shields being capa` ble of adjustment independent of the other pairs of arms with their shields and face plates, substantially as described.

Montreal, January 5, 1893.

JOS. B. Boy, JOSEPH W. MIGrNATIL'T. 

